Rituals are a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, actions, or objects, performed according to a set sequence. Rituals, like play, create “as if” worlds through the imaginative capacity of the mind.

The practice of ritual helps us to live together in a broken world. Ritual is work, endless work. But it is among the most important things we do. 

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Ritual and Its Consequences
Adam Seligman, Robert Weller